Luna Pier is a very small city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,367 people and just one neighborhood, Luna Pier is the 420th largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some cities, Luna Pier isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Luna Pier are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Luna Pier is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Luna Pier who work in management occupations (11.53%), sales jobs (9.98%), and office and administrative support (7.98%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Luna Pier has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Luna Pier a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Luna Pier doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Luna Pier citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.20% of adults 25 and older in Luna Pier have a college degree.
The per capita income in Luna Pier in 2022 was $33,101, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,404 for a family of four. However, Luna Pier contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Luna Pier home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Luna Pier residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Luna Pier include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Luna Pier is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 20.3% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 1.4% have Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Luna Pier are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 40.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Luna Pier, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Polish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.